he obviously believes the people
of South Dakota are so ignorant, uneducated, dumb and stupid that they would
sign a snake oil

petition to get a proposition on the
ballot whichwill
allow

convicted criminals to be released
from prison after the

People of South Dakota have spent time
and tax dollars

to incarcerate them for the
protection of the people.

-- Ron Loeber

"Tom Barnett", in hiscapacity of "Executive Director of the South Dakota
Bar Association, was a guest on the Al Franken Show of Air America,
broadcasting" lies "over KTLK
1150 AM in Los Angeles and heard across the country."

Mister Barnett lives and works in South Dakota... among and with the people
of South Dakota. Not only is he the Executive Director of the most
influential legal brotherhood in South Dakota, he is the official spokesman for
the lawyers statewide professional organization. It is unlikely he rose to
that position without plying his trade on the front line... in the
courts. Whenever Mister Barnett speaks in his capacity as Executive
Director of the South Dakota Bar association, he speaks for all member-lawyers
who do not take exception to his statements.

It is undisputed that a physician or a CPA has a personal and unique
insight and perspective of the lives of their patients or clients that is
not generally seen by the man on the street. Anyone who
practices law also indisputably has a similar personal and unique perspective
about his clients which, in this instance, is the people of South
Dakota. It is also undisputed that the things we say arise from our
perspective based upon our own personal experiences. In
that respect, unless Mister Barnett is a pathological liar, he is no
different from the rest of us... he speaks from his perspective based upon his
experience.

Giving him the benefit of the doubt about being a pathological liar, his
comments about J.A.I.L. can only be a reflection of his experience and the
experience of the members of the South Dakota Bar which were formed
while representing the people of South Dakota in the course of their
work. His comments speak volumes about the way he views the people
of South Dakota. Based upon his personal experience he obviously
believes the people of South Dakota are so ignorant, uneducated, dumb and stupid
that they would sign a snake oil petition to get a proposition on the ballot
whichwill allow convicted criminals to be released
from prison after the People of South Dakota have spent time and tax
dollars to incarcerate them for the protection of the people. It is
obvious he believes the people of South Dakota are so mentally incompetent they
should be told what to think from cradle to grave for their own
benefit.

The people of South Dakota should know what Mister Barnett and the Bar
Association members think of them and take appropriate action. There is a
reason Shakespeare came up with his famous solution to
the infection called lawyers.